Making The Shot: Marin Headlands

Making The Shot: Marin Headlands

A great landscape photo is the sum of many parts. Vision, planning, execution, post processing. Each plays their role in creating a compelling landscape photo. Making The Shot videos take you through the entire photographic process. I share with you my entire process from envisioning a photo, planning the shoot and sorting out logistics, on location thoughts about composition and camera settings, and the final in-studio post processing work.

Join me on a photo trip through the Marin Headlands north of San Francisco, California. Forests, rolling hills, and beautiful overlooks of the Pacific. This shoot was a challenging one! I share what worked, what didn't and key takeaways I learned from the experience. Despite the challenges, I came away with several good photos and I share the post processing of my favorite.

Your download includes:

Making The Shot video: An 60+ minute video detailing my entire photographic process. Location research, travel plans, gear choices - all the up front work before trip. Then, join me on location as I work through the in-the-moment decisions of composition and camera settings. Following an after-shoot debrief and image review, the video wraps up with the end-to-end post processing of my favorite photo from the trip.

eBooklet: A 15 page companion eBooklet for the video. The booklet contains composition thoughts and includes full step-by-step post processing notes on a selected image from the shoot.

Practice image: Follow along with the post processing steps yourself.

Note: This product is a digital download only, it is not available in DVD format. This download is ~288MB and may take a while to download.

Scott Davenport is a landscape photographer and photo educator and based in San Diego, California. He leads photo workshops, writes photography books, makes tutorial videos, and feels weird referring to himself in the 3rd person.